| rdfs:comment | - Rick Steves started his career in travel by teaching travel classes at the University of Washington in Seattle and working as a cunnilingus instructor in the summer (He did not provide fellatio lessons because that would be gay, and Rick don't swing that way). In 1979, based on his travel classes, he wrote the first edition of Europe Through the Back Door, a general guide on how to travel in Europe that is more straight than it sounds. Unlike most guidebook entrepreneurs, he opened a storefront business, which at first was both travel center and an oral sex education studio. He held travel classes and slide shows, did travel consulting, organized a few group tours per year, and updated his books. Choosing irony over accuracy, he incorporated his business with the saucy title, "Rick Steves'
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| abstract | - Rick Steves started his career in travel by teaching travel classes at the University of Washington in Seattle and working as a cunnilingus instructor in the summer (He did not provide fellatio lessons because that would be gay, and Rick don't swing that way). In 1979, based on his travel classes, he wrote the first edition of Europe Through the Back Door, a general guide on how to travel in Europe that is more straight than it sounds. Unlike most guidebook entrepreneurs, he opened a storefront business, which at first was both travel center and an oral sex education studio. He held travel classes and slide shows, did travel consulting, organized a few group tours per year, and updated his books. Choosing irony over accuracy, he incorporated his business with the saucy title, "Rick Steves' Europe Through the Back Door." You know, cuz it's ironic that such a straight guy would name his business something so blatantly gay as that! Anyway... During the following years, Steves' guidebooks and tours had a generous readership. They emphasized authentic experiences, value for money, and rated the local women on their slutiness. The books do cover mainstream sights such as the Colosseum and Tower of London, but they also try to point to "back doors" with lower prices and cheaper whores. In 1991, Steves began producing TV shows about European destinations, a move that increased his fame and consequently scored him mucho tail. The TV shows made him a nationwide figure, and his tour, guidebook, and sexual liasons boomed.
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